"In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill."

“Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.”

Source : "Make Combating Child Marriage a U.S. Foreign Policy Priority" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2012.

“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother (Joaquin).”

“The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.”

“God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.392, Whitaker House

“I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.”

“Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.”

“We need to be stronger. We need to deter the Russians. We need to show resolve, which is why cooperating with them on the other hand can be more difficult.”

“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press